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World Bank
Yellen pushes for first steps in World Bank reform by April
...The pressure on the World Bank to tackle “global public goods” follows the abrupt resignation of sitting president David Malpass, and comes as the US and other shareholder nations seek to expand the bank...
March 22, 2023
FT AlphavilleMusic
The MP3 and the T-Rex: Part 1
...In the first of a two-part post, he guides us through the digital music revolution of the past two decades and, like David Byrne in the famous Talking Heads track, asks himself, “Well, how did I get here...
November 3, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...: Bill Stewart, Leicester; Gareth Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts...
June 5, 2020
US midterm elections
The women who made history in the midterms
...Sharice Davids Ms Davids won her race in Kansas to become, together with Deb Haaland of New Mexico, the first Native American women in Congress....
November 7, 2018
Letter
Franco-German proposals would undermine competitive markets in the EU
...Kar Linklaters LLP, London Jonas Koponen Linklaters LLP, Brussels Francesco Rosati RBB Economics, Brussels Cristoforo Osti Chiomenti Studio Legale, Rome Christian Wik Roschier, Helsinki Anne Witt...
April 29, 2019
FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
High resolution music is a solution looking for a problem
...But a survey from 2015 by David Watkins of Strategy Analytics underlines this point....
May 13, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Energy Source
The week in energy: A Green New Deal
...Emily Witt of the New Yorker reported on how the Sunrise movement has “established itself as the dominant influence on the environmental policy of the Democratic party’s young, progressive wing”....
January 12, 2019
Due Diligence
China’s accidental ‘bad banks’ Premium content
...The UK’s Compass Group has hired Kingfisher’s Karen Witts as its chief financial officer. She will succeed Johnny Thomson....
October 12, 2018
Cordelia Jenkins
Opinion today: Trump declares a trade war
...Start talking about people — Lola Okolosie in the Guardian Brexit: It has to happen — David Runciman in the London Review of Books The man behind Burning Man — Emily Witt in the New Yorker I’m not black...
May 9, 2018
Retail & Consumer industry
Business transformation on track, says Kingfisher
...Karen Witts, chief financial officer, said: “The caution in the UK is more around the macroeconomic backdrop and in France it’s more about the progress we make ourselves . . . you just have to open your...
September 20, 2017
EU economy
Happy 5th ECB anniversary: Mario Draghi’s 11 most memorable moments
...Getting blamed for destroying the European project Not to be out done, Deutsche Bank’s chief economist, David Folkerts-Landau, stepped things up in the summer: ECB policy is threatening the European project...
November 1, 2016
Letter
When Bowie died only vinyl would do
...I listen to classical on CD and buy the latest hits from iTunes, but when David Bowie died, only vinyl would do....
March 6, 2016
Life & Arts
Who will win the streaming wars?
...On his website, the Talking Heads’ David Byrne wondered if streaming services weren’t treating musicians like an overharvested resource....
June 12, 2015
News in-depthFTfm
Central banks: Peak independence
...In the early 19th century, the British economist David Ricardo said central banks should never in the “slightest degree” fall under government control....
November 8, 2015
Life & Arts
The FT’s best books of 2015
...organised pirates at the bottom — Witt maps out how an industry was turned on its head by file-sharing technology....
November 27, 2015
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2015
..., by Stephen Witt, Bodley Head, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95 Apple’s entry into the subscription music-streaming market is proof that the music industry survived — just — but Witt tells the exciting story of...
June 26, 2015
US & Canadian companies
Buffett faces challenge on Berkshire dividend
...David Witt, a 52-year-old tax adviser, has submitted a proposal calling for an annual payout, which will be put to a shareholder vote at Berkshire’s famous annual meeting in May....
March 14, 2014
Fund management
Will Buffett have a GE lightbulb moment?
...David Witt, the man behind the proposal is no activist rabble-rouser like Carl Icahn or Daniel Loeb, nor one of those nuisances who pop up with hobby-horse resolutions at company after company....
April 6, 2014
US & Canadian companies
Buffett disciples make way to Omaha amid break-up debate
...David Witt, the Cincinnati accountant who submitted the proposal, said he would consider doing so again, despite risking “ridicule” from Mr Buffett....
May 4, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Summer books guide
...This anthology includes excellent essays by Elif Batuman, Emily Witt and Wesley Yang....
June 28, 2013
Martin LukesWork & Careers
Notes from outside
...Adrian is classic CFO who doesn’t get ethics and Noel Witt is classic HR – not the sharpest knife in the drawer!! Witt by name but not by nature!!...
May 19, 2010
Life & Arts
Safe as houses?
...“You can never be 100 per cent safe, so do what you can,” says Andrew Sachs, whose title – vice-president of crisis and consequence management at “emergency preparedness” consultancy James Lee Witt – conveys...
October 31, 2008
World
Zimbabwe’s collapse starves trade artery
...Additional reporting by Emily Witt in Beira...
March 25, 2008
Life & Arts
Joyously shameless treasures revealed
...Made in 1857, at the height of Victorian prudery, it is the fig-leaf made for a full-size copy of Michelangelo’s “David”....
October 14, 2007
Life & Arts
The magnificent ’07: Music
...Jenna Witts is the 19-year-old protégée of Show Of Hands, the Devonian folk duo....
December 15, 2007

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